Before you say the game-changing “I do,” there’s so much prep to do for the happiest day of your life. Picking up the most perfect white dress is one. Sending out fancy invitations to guests (and not forgetting anyone) is another. Planning the whole celebration part is third. And when the list seems never-ending, you realize there has to be a perfect wedding cake and you can’t let yet another baking fail happen.
Luckily for all the newlyweds, wedding cake artisans exist and their mad decorating skills are on a whole new level. So, Bored Panda has compiled some of the most elaborate, creative, and unique wedding cake designs that look so good they may as well hang one in a museum after the party’s over.
Get ready to upvote your faves and share some with your friend whose wedding planning has gotten way out of hand. Who knows—you may save some tears and not let cake expectations vs. reality ruin the big day, as it sometimes happens.
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Detail Of The Wedding Cake Made By My Dad As A Surprise For His Grand-Daughters Wedding. 100% Edible
That's gorgeous!!! How would anyone go about eating that?
You just eat the half-circle ones around the base.
Load More Replies...That is super impressive, lots of skill, time and delicate hands went into that.
After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I say that is super fantastic!
I learned a few years ago that in China, the gift is the time it takes to create something. This is truly a gift of love from a wonderful grandfather. Challenge is where to put it after the wedding.
The Perfect Wedding Cake For Dog Owners
Polygamous dog marriages are only legal in certain counties of Utah.
Why'd they use brown flowers though? Kinda looks like the doggies pooed on the cake
I’m Getting Married Today, And I Made Our Wedding Cake! Layers Of Pumpkin And Apple Spice Cake, Maple Cream Cheese Frosting, Fresh Fruit And Herbs, Candied Spiced Pecans And Pumpkin Seeds. It’s Only Going To Be Shared With Like Four People But I Wanted To Go All Out. Thanks For Looking!
Love it more than any other on this list. This one makes my mouth water just looking at it.
YES! I love cakes that looks edible more than any others. Those perfect, white blanket-covered cakes sure are tasty, but these naked ones are the true perfection!
Load More Replies...What a beautiful and classy cake. Congratulations for the cake and the wedding!
Now you know thousands more from around the world have enjoyed your cake. If you aren't in this business, you should be, this is stunning. Have a great married life.
I do not like frosting. This is the best cake on the list! Amazing job!
The other cakes in this thread are about eye-popping decoration. This one is about GLORIOUS EATING! You should get married more often.
In order to find out what exactly it takes to create a gallery-worthy wedding cake, Bored Panda reached out to internationally acclaimed cake designer Maggie Austin, who has worked with illustrious clients all over the globe, from President Obama’s White House Christmas celebrations to Hollywood parties.
Maggie said that in order to make a truly unique wedding cake, one needs a unique couple. “What I love most about working with clients is that I create designs that reflect the aesthetic of their individual weddings. From the sugar flowers to the color palette to the texture of the design elements, each cake is an expression of what the couple loves.”
This Very Accurate Dog Owners Wedding Cake
'Embroidered' Wedding Cake
If I don't have this for my wedding I'm doing something wrong.
I must remember this idea for my nans next birthday cake. I have a year to practice.
Gee, I wonder if they got married on Cinco de Mayo? Very appropriate!
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That is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. That being said, it must've cost a arm and a leg!
Sometimes, Maggie said, she’s asked to incorporate details that carry special meaning just for the newlyweds. For example, “One bride asked me to include a wild boar in the design as a surprise homage to the groom's family crest!”
The cake designer said that usually, she begins working on sugar flowers and decorative elements many months in advance, and the cake decoration takes place on Friday night before a Saturday wedding. “I am putting on final touches right up until the moment that I leave the venue. I love that the sugar flowers last forever.”
Moreover, “many couples choose to display their sugar flowers under a cloche as a beautiful memento of their wedding,” Maggie told us.
LEGO Wedding Cake
I think all the bricks are colored fondant? Minifigs look real.
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You don't. You just rip it to pieces and eat it. After taking like ninety photos
Load More Replies...Judging from the size, this will also be the newly married couple's first home.
I don’t think there is such a thing for wedding cake!
Load More Replies..."ahh yes I would like a piece from the top floor second window over please"
Phenomenal!!!! After watching tons of wedding shows, I need to know the cost of that cake! I can't imagine how long that took! <3
1.It's too beautiful to cut 2.How am I supposed to cut it 3.There is no 3 because Im blown away I wonder How long it took them.
Book-Lovers Wedding Cake
50 shades fo grey???????? What kind of 'book lover' would want THAT on their cake? I can only guess, it's meant as a joke.
with Bride and predujice. I don't think they have a common reading followers....
Load More Replies...Loved this... until I saw 50 Shades of Gray. Yuck. Not what I'd want representing my wedding. Hopefully it's a joke?
Maggie also said that she prefers “loose, organic floral arrangements and soft, textile-inspired design elements.” These days, she has noticed that couples are more likely to embrace the beauty of visual movement instead of the rigid symmetry typical to more old-fashioned cake designs.
Embroidered Wedding Cake
Love the black background, makes the colors pop. Bold choice that paid off.
Absolutely beautiful !! I find it hard enough on material and nowhere near your standard !!
Another beautiful "embroidered" cake! I admire the time and patience it took to do these!
An Extremely Creative Wedding Cake
This is really clever. Not only beautiful, but the little ones can grab a cupcake (when ready) and run. Really lovely.
A bunch of little children bolting around for hours after with blue stained grins!
Load More Replies...I've seen so many peacock attempts on baking competitions. The cupcakes are a brilliant idea.
Otter Wedding Cake I Made Today. Chocolate Blackberry Flavored. With White Chocolate Otters
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oh I have an idea. I feel exactly the same way.
Load More Replies...This Is A Wedding Cake I Made For Very Special Friends
Exactly. How are we supposed to cut into and eat a dog cake?
Load More Replies...dont eat the tounge, or else youll be kissing the dog, not ur bride / groom!
This looks great and I am sure the love of animals is a bonus in any marriage!
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That is so complex and detailed. I love it. Whoever made this is extremely talented. I also love how the different colors add a richness to it because I find plain white ones to be bland looking.
Beautiful And Subtle Harry Potter Wedding Cake
Because the man who said that was talking about his high school crush that stopped being friends with him at 15 and married another man? It's something the bride's stalker would whisper while watching the wedding from the bushes across the street. I hate how "Always" has become the go-to word for romantic HP fans, it's super creepy in context and has no place at a wedding.
Load More Replies...Subtle... You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.
why are you downvoted, i would find that really hilarious
Load More Replies...Half Batman Half Traditional Wedding Cake
I think that was proposed but the serious half declined.
Load More Replies...Bruce has found his dream, Bruce.aka BatMan, has found his dream, Wifey Girl
My Wedding Cake: 100% Edible
It's funny that its meant to just look like pieces of a dead tree, but we think it's beautiful! I can't judge that's what I had at my wedding lol.
Stunning cake! But also, friends, don't carve trees. It hurts them, and trees are good
WOW! I'm at a loss for words with these cakes!!! AND That doesn't happen often!
Geode Wedding Cake
Cable Knit Wedding Cake
[homemade] Wedding Cake
...bea? You mean bee? As in the bees that will buzz over to the part in the middle that looks just like a honeycomb?
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Mawwige..is wot bwings us togetha..today. Wuv, twuuuu wuv.
"get used to disappointment". But not in this case.
Load More Replies...What Do Y’all Think About Modern Wedding Cakes? I Made This Beauty For A Modern Wedding At A Warehouse
Many of you probably never saw the old 1930s film "The great Ziegfeld", but there's a wedding cake musical number with alot of people on a huge wedding cake singing, and the spiral shaped top part of this cake is shaped almost exactly like the cake in that number which has a spiral staircase going up around it as the shape of that wedding cake
Secret Identity Of A Wedding Cake
Am I the only one who is seeing the right side skyline in batman cake is giving a finger.
Forest Themed Wedding Cake
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Ah, looks like a piece of embroidery is just laid on it. Very pretty & dainty.
Self Made Forest Wedding Cake For My Sister
YES! This one would taste the best. Fondant tastes like cardboard with sugar.
Load More Replies...This is the yummiest looking cake of all. It looks absolutely delicious and now I am hungry. Also this cake looks like it's made with a lot of love. It has a feeling of warmth and sentimentality to it that makes it so beautiful. I would love to have this as my wedding cake if I ever got married. This is truly a delicious labour of love.
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When your cake is bigger and more intricate than the one the Queen of England had, you either made it or went a little over the top. Or both :) I almost hear the crunchy cracking when biting in the sugar columns.
That's Rococo for you... More is more and you end up with a monstrosity like this.
Load More Replies...In an attempt at impressing everyone they forgot class & the entire point of the wedding. Maybe I’m wrong on my assessment of the couple, but it feels very Jersey Shore Bridezilla-ish. As a baker myself I would be tempted to take it on just for the challenge... but with my name also attached I would decline. I wouldn’t want to work with this caliber of client more than once. It’s just obnoxious. Sorry, but no. I like all the others better.
I can’t imagine that a cake that can stand up to this Amount of decorating/construction would be very moist and tasty.
Gorgeous, & a lot of work, yes. It just makes me feel like they’re a little self important & Bridezilla-ish. It’s just too obnoxious to be classy. All for show. Maybe I’ve judged them wrongly, but it’s all too Jersey Shore cringy. - As a baker myself I’m impressed & it would be fun, but delivery & assembly would every level of complicated.
This Was The Cake I Created For A Stunning Droomtroue Wedding End Of Last Year... With Smoke Pouring Out Of The Aladin Lamp And Lighting In The Geode Cave
Glowing In The Dark Wedding Cake
There is a food colouring powder that makes it glow, I looked it up after I saw this pick.
Load More Replies...It's not glow in the dark, it's a white cake that they project onto. It's kind of cool with the effects they can do, but requires the area around the cake to be dark and the cake itself is just a plain white... https://www.bustle.com/p/image-mapping-on-wedding-cakes-is-the-new-trend-that-projects-beautiful-shapes-on-cake-tiers-8831098
That is so cool, would look awesome on my daughters galaxy cake next year. Glowing stars.
The Wedding I'm At Has The Best Cake I've Ever Seen
Literally like all my favorite shows and movies... how amazing!
Those are, like, all of my favorite things in one place!
Pillow Wedding Cake
I'm the one who would acidently pick it up and throw it not knowing it was a cake lol
wow lovely idea and you can put all the decorations you've every dreamt of having on your cake.
Disney Wedding Cake
What's the name of this baker? He is an artist, I wonder if he has a site to visit and see all of his works...
https://instagram.com/renat_agzamov?igshid=18gfe398hqxrc
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Day of the dead 🎂 for a wedding is not my idea of a lifetime of happiness!
Omg... thats so horrible to my taste.. Well, at least Zara and the couple like it ! Most important...
That looks like a cake Guns N Roses would've had at one of their parties
Load More Replies...Original Wedding Cake
Should be higher, and just lovely and intimate! Like drawing the curtain back on an intimate moment, and feeling their love!
Beautiful Wedding Cake
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This looks more edible than a lot of the others on here. I'm so sick of fondant all over everything. Bleah. This one you can see has real frosting. Much nicer.
I agree! Fondant is inedible. Like so much today, for effect but not honest
Load More Replies...I dont get these cakes with all the fake flowers on it. I'd understand if it was edible but like, those dont look like sugar flowers to me, they look like fake flowers. I get the cake looks 'pretty' but pulling plastic off my cake for the sake of art seems stupid and a waste to me.
Hopefully it’s sugar flowers that you can eat. Yummy and less harmful to the environment! 😊
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Right?! How are we only seeing the back of this dragon??
Load More Replies...Queen Elizabeth II's Wedding Cake, 1947. Dubbed "The 10,000 Mile Wedding Cake" After Its Ingredients Were Flown In From Australia And South Africa, The Cake Measured 9 Ft In Height And Weighed 500 Lbs
Each cake is on a platter, you simply take them down one at a time
Load More Replies...everyone gets his one section how a little picture of the big cake. Sweet indeed.
The ingredients were donated from Commonwealth countries as England still had shortages after the war.
Thank you, I was wondering what ingredient they had to have flown in and why.
Load More Replies...And all this while even sweets (candy) were still rationed and didn't come off rationing until 1953. Most cake ingredients were still rationed too.
I think I read it somewhere that people were sending in their own textile ration tickets so their princess could have her wedding dress. I think that's such a beautiful thing to have done.
Load More Replies...Now, where do we begin eating? At the top or maybe the bottom or yes, the middle ought be tasty.
The chefs at Le Cordon Bleu recreated this icon in 2017 to commemorate the70th wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. OMG - Google it! Somebody broke into the museum where a replica of the cake was kept, basically turned it upside down and doused it with red paint.
It's not 9 feet tall, unless you count 2 feet of glass pillars and 4 feet of roses on the top...
Beauty And The Beast Themed Wedding Cake
We Are Super Proud Of Ourselves! It Was A Huge Pleasure Makes The Little Prince Cake
It IS a birthday cake. Who would have this for their wedding cake - a very, very self-absorbed groom??
Load More Replies...May The 4th Be With You. Awesome Star Wars Cake From Lauren And Mark’s Wedding
I want to believe that at the reception, the father of the bride pulled the groom aside to say "Mark...I am your father-in-law"
Imagine the groom was named Luke instead though?? Hahaha 😂
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Don't depend on that! You pick out the cake you want!
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That’s actually requires a special permit 8n my state. (WV) Or else it’s illegal. It’s a fuzzy memory...
This Lotr (Minas Tirith) Wedding Cake
My Wife Made This Wedding Cake
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I Made My First Ever Wedding Cake Today And I’m Really Proud And Wanted To Share
[homemade] Rainbow Wedding Cake By My Wife
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This Cake For A Wedding At Win Cathedral Has A Little Golden Retriever Puppy Peeking Out From One Of The Tiers!
Wedding We Went To Today Had Periodic Table Cupcakes As Their Wedding Cake
The same reason anyone has a specific cake - Batman? Harry Potter? Books? They like them! These are probably scientists. It's cool. And the cupcakes are easy to make and eat. So... Why not???
Load More Replies...[i Ate] Doctor Who/Vincent Van Gogh Wedding Cake
I really love the cupcakes, and how amazing it is, ur an inner artist :D
Star Wars Wedding Cake
A 1.5-Ton Wedding Cake Made For The Wedding Of A Relative Of The President Of Kazakhstan [1119x1165]
Renat Agzamov, he's a former boxer turned confectioner. The cake cost £128,000!
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Cake Themed Harry Potter
Awesome Peacock Wedding Cake With Cupcakes By Malizzi Cakes 😲
The Wedding I Am At Has A Cheesecake. A Cake Actually Made Of Cheese
The Topper Of The Cake That We Made This Weekend
We are gathered here today to join this man and this woman in Wall-E matrimony
The Cutest Wedding Cake, A Globe With All The Spots They Have Travelled Together, On Top Of A Suitcase #comeflywithme
Beach Themed Wedding Cake
that sand doesnt look tasty. just the texture on that cake makes me feel weird
So, We Had A LOTR Themed Cake At Our Wedding Today
I love the idea but I am not sure putting a huge version of the evil ring covered in orc script is really in tune with the spirit of the cake... (I know.... I am a LOTR geek and read the books over 20 times).
Royal Wedding Cake
Harry Potter Wedding Cake Made For My Friends Big Day
Amazing Wedding Cake
I kinda want to just grab a handful of the sugar flowers and shove it in my mouth, that'd probably taste so good <3
These ones actually look like they are edible.
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Groot Wedding Cake
Then you stab & dismember that cake? Impossible.
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Spot On Cake At The Wedding I Was At Today
Got To Make The Fanciest Cake Of My Career For My Friend's Wedding
A Very Massive Congratulations To The Brand New Mr & Mrs A Mcgowan Who Finally Managed To Tie The Knot Today
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Our Wedding Cake
There are a lot a intricate cakes here, but this is the best subtle one I’ve seen.
im so sorry that you dont understand this reference - it really is a shame
Load More Replies...My friend had a Portal "the cake is a lie" wedding... and their cake was a lie - it turned out to be brownies!
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Bow Wedding Cake
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LOVE IT SO MUCH, FISH SCALES AS A DECO IS AWESOME, nr fish scales tho rite?
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What Felix And Marzia’s Wedding Cake Must Have Been Like
Tetris Cake
Beautiful cake! But wouldn't the bottom collapse because the blocks matched?
this hurts me only becuase the tetris blocks should be rainbow (sorry if im wrong)
Today's Wedding Cake! So In Love With It
Loved This Wedding Cake I Made
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This Wedding Cake
i appreciate the effort but i most likely would be too sick from looking at it to even eat the cake
This Secret Garden Inspired Wedding Cake. The Cake Featured Their Beautiful Wedding Flowers Of Red Roses, Daisies, Sunflowers And Ivy
Little fairy mushrooms and bumblebees and two adorable handmade sugar rabbits as a topper with airbrushed detailing, a wood effect sugar sign, and a sugar plant pot.
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Staircase Wedding Cake
Rockin’ Drum Themed Wedding Cake
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Both Me And And My Wife Are Gamers. This Was Our Wedding Cake (Our A Actual Destiny Characters On Top)
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Double-Sided Wedding Cake
Friends Wedding Cake. The One Where A Lovely Couple Get Married
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So many things being referenced! I love it, and I know I'm going to look back later and see something I missed (the face-hugger almost got past me)
Nope. Someone goes to the Naughty Step for defiling the TARDIS with Pennywise.
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pretty sure several others were birthday cakes. but still awesome
Load More Replies...Wife And I Had A Got Cake For Our Wedding. Made The Wall Out Of Red Velvet, Had 2 LEGO Viking Figures For Topping. It Was 10.5 Kg And Fed 120 Peeps
The Fox And The Bear Get Hitched
Gothic Style Wedding Cake
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An Aussie-American Wedding Cake.
Minions - Bride And Groom
Aww, you couldn't even be bothered to wear your good overalls to the wedding? Bad form, Minion
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Super Hero Cake
These are really beautiful, but I wonder how they taste... looks lak half of these are covered in like a solid 2 pounds of fondant lol
You'd probably have to remove some of the icing and/or fondant.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't invite my current pop culture obsession into a ceremony that's meant to last the rest of my life. A film series or video game theme seems really appropriate for a birthday party that's about a snapshot of your age, but it would just feel weird to be looking through old wedding pictures in the future and explaining that these are all settings and characters from some cartoon you watched 30 years ago.Incredible cake work on everything here, though!
But it depends on the couple. Perhaps they bonded over that particular theme, then looking at pictures in the future would be a wonderful memory. If it represents the couple and what they love, I see no problem.
Load More Replies...Some of the cakes that look like $$$$$ make me think of the newlyweds who handed out food to the poor or donated the money for reception food to food banks.
These are not wedding cakes.... these are works of art. Theres no way i would ever want to cut any of them, let alone eat them
Usually, I get bored with these long lists of things and stop looking because there's a marked drop off in quality as the list goes on. Not here, these are all stunning.
These cakes are beautiful. Lots of time anc effort. And money. I hope that the vows spoken are seriously ready to devote the time and energy required to get through a lifetime. Weddings have little to do with why we have them. I'm all for a great party. The exorbitant prices associated with all things bridal are insane. I just can't imagine forking out $18-20k for a wedding gown. All these Cinderella's who wake up the next day and realize they have nothing to plan or arrange or do like they had for the past year or more. And a year later they can't stand each other. Then there's the opposite, me, who never got married because of my fear of failing at it. Got asked, but then lay in my bed looking just like Billy Crystal did when he finally slept with Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally". So let's all just eat the cake anyway. Dressed up, dressed down, married or not. Their artistry can not be denied.
Don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. I totally know what you mean. I know several people who were more concerned with having a huge fancy wedding and expensive dress than they were with their actual marriage and spouse. Regardless these cakes are beautiful works of art and should be celebrated for that reason.
Load More Replies...These are really beautiful, but I wonder how they taste... looks lak half of these are covered in like a solid 2 pounds of fondant lol
You'd probably have to remove some of the icing and/or fondant.
Load More Replies...Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't invite my current pop culture obsession into a ceremony that's meant to last the rest of my life. A film series or video game theme seems really appropriate for a birthday party that's about a snapshot of your age, but it would just feel weird to be looking through old wedding pictures in the future and explaining that these are all settings and characters from some cartoon you watched 30 years ago.Incredible cake work on everything here, though!
But it depends on the couple. Perhaps they bonded over that particular theme, then looking at pictures in the future would be a wonderful memory. If it represents the couple and what they love, I see no problem.
Load More Replies...Some of the cakes that look like $$$$$ make me think of the newlyweds who handed out food to the poor or donated the money for reception food to food banks.
These are not wedding cakes.... these are works of art. Theres no way i would ever want to cut any of them, let alone eat them
Usually, I get bored with these long lists of things and stop looking because there's a marked drop off in quality as the list goes on. Not here, these are all stunning.
These cakes are beautiful. Lots of time anc effort. And money. I hope that the vows spoken are seriously ready to devote the time and energy required to get through a lifetime. Weddings have little to do with why we have them. I'm all for a great party. The exorbitant prices associated with all things bridal are insane. I just can't imagine forking out $18-20k for a wedding gown. All these Cinderella's who wake up the next day and realize they have nothing to plan or arrange or do like they had for the past year or more. And a year later they can't stand each other. Then there's the opposite, me, who never got married because of my fear of failing at it. Got asked, but then lay in my bed looking just like Billy Crystal did when he finally slept with Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally". So let's all just eat the cake anyway. Dressed up, dressed down, married or not. Their artistry can not be denied.
Don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. I totally know what you mean. I know several people who were more concerned with having a huge fancy wedding and expensive dress than they were with their actual marriage and spouse. Regardless these cakes are beautiful works of art and should be celebrated for that reason.
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